It's January 02, 2026, 04:47:57 AM
Yeah, the guy lives for hip-hop of course he is still going. I appreciate that. But I'd rather dig into his gems from the past in the golden era than check his new shit.
his verse on "Got My Mind Made Up" really made me a fan"Ayo, lyrical gat spittin' the criminal tacticsNon-believers get my dick and genital backwardsLet's face it, there's no replacementTaste this mad underground basement shit I'm laced withAvalanche on your whole camp when I'm spliftedFunk Doctor, who? Spock, bitch, don't get it twistedI got connects like Federal ExpressTo get the fresh package of bless the dogs can't fetchGot the clear spot from the rear blockTo bust 'til every nigga here drop, men, I fear notHold your nose and blow out 'til your ears popSince your crew suit you to shiftNow, you claim that your gears lockedWhiff this underground cannabisI'm dangerous like John the Bomb AnalystFlip MCs like ki'sMy degrees freeze consecutively, like EPMD LPsLick off a shot and hit your fam by mistakeSo I erase the whole front row at the wakeI planned my escape in case Jake wanna snakeBust it, I'm the one pushin' the hearse, in the first placeConfidence for you shaky-ass folksPump for Rockafella for the day he got smokeChoke off this antidote, got you hopeGet roast by my lyrical Billy Dee .45 Colt(And I'm out for nine-nickel)"
It was a dope song, but I didn't think as a kid that Red's verse was any better than anyone else on the track. To me it just felt like a posse cut and group feel and then 2pac's presence sort of stands out even though 2pac allegedly (I disagree) isn't the most lyrical, you do feel his presence when he enters the room and Daz or Quik or whoever put in that bit of change up to the beat that fits perfect when Pac comes in.First off--Rhyme and Reason. I'm not the biggest Redman fan, but the thing that did make me check him out as a kid, was his part in the documentary Rhyme and Reason where he's like on the streets in the park like ol school style participating in park jams and shit like that and he's quoted saying, "YOU SEE ME I"M OUT HERE ON THE STREETZ--AND I"M GOLD, MY SHIT IS GOLD!" I thought that was kind of dope just how he was hustlin like a no name artist who just loved the culture and wanted to be in the streetz but meanwhile the dude has a gold record.Secondly, Eminem was always biggin this guy up as his favorite rapper. So in 99' when Eminem became my favorite rapper, I was like, okay, I got to check out Redman.
yeah his verse stood out to me because I really never listened to Redman until I heard that track and then I had to check out his previous 2 albumsI don't necessarily think he was better than anyone else on the track except for Daz who you can barely hear on it...I would have loved to hear what Rage came up with on the OG
Bro.. I swear man you don't sound like an East Coast kid at all, you should've been bumpin Redman in 94' but you were probably bumpin Warren G like us midwest kidz!And as for Daz, Daz was like my idol in those dayz so anything he did I always assumed it was for some reason way deeper than my 14 year old brain to understand. So nicca, IF DAZ WANNA RAP LOW ON A RECORD, THEN DAZ RAPPIN LOW ON THE RECORD AND THAT SHIT IS HOTT DON"T QUESTION IT NICCA !!